FuturICT

FuturICT Germany

Please visit www.futurict.eu for the website of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal.

FuturICT is a visionary project that will deliver new science and technology to explore, understand and manage our connected world. This will inspire new information and communication technologies (ICT) that are socially adaptive and socially interactive, supporting collective awareness.

Partners

Name Affiliation Area of Expertise
Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz (current coordinator) University of Passau        Computer Science, Embedded Systems
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kurths PIC Potsdam                          Nonlinear dynamics
Prof. Dr. Sandra Hirche Technical University of Munich         Computational Neuroscience
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt University of Stuttgart                     Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering
Prof. Dr.  Philipp Slusallek DFKI Computer Graphics
Prof. Dr. Dieter W. Fellner Frauenhofer IGD   Interactive Graphics System
Prof. Dr. Daniel Keim University of Konstanz                      Data mining, Visualization
Prof. Dr. Daniel Mallmann Jüllich Supercomputing Center Federated Systems and Data
Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele Max Planck Institute Informatik         Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing 
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka University of Hohenheim Economics  of Innovation
Prof. Dr. Carlo Jaeger PIK Potsdam Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr. Michael Herty RWTH Aachen University Mathematics (Continuous Optimization)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran University of Hamburg Climate Change and Security
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann University of Bayreuth Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Economic Phenomena
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux Kiel Institute for the World Economy Monetary Economics and International Finance
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Oceanographer and Climate Modeller
Dr. Peter Wagner German Aerospace Centre Transport Systems
Prof. Dr. Alexander K. Hartmann University of Oldenburg Computational Theoretical Physics
Jacob Bilabel Thema1 Think Tank in Berlin Managing Director Thema1 (Environment)
Dr. Chistoph Räth Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Theory of complex plasmas
Dr. Reik  Donner Dresden University of Technology (also PIK Potsdam) Nonlinear dynamics, climate impact research
Prof. Dr. Doris Dransch GFZ Potsdam GeoVisual Analytics, Interactive Geovisualization, Information Management
Dr. Erich Rome IAIS Fraunhofer Critical Infrastructure Protection
Dr. Gennady Adrienko IAIS Fraunhofer GeoVisualization
Dr. Thilo Gross Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dynamics of Biological Networks
Dr. Oliver Grothe University of Köln Economic and Social Statistics
Dr. Heike Egner University of Mainz Human Geography/Human Ecology
Dr. Hans Voss IAIS Fraunhofer Spatial Decision Support
Dr. Hendrik Vollmer University of Bielefeld Sociological Studies of Decision-Making Processes
Dr. Henk van Elst Karlshochschule International University Relativistic Cosmology
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schiewe HafenCity University Hamburg Geomatics
Prof. Dr. Joerg Bergmann University of Bielefeld Sociology - Communication (Communicating Disaster)
Dr. Joern Kollhammer IGD Fraunhofer Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
Prof.Dr. Jürgen Jost Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Pure Mathermatics
Prof. Dr. Katja Windt Jacobs University Bremen Global Production Logistics
Kai Kunze University of Passau Working with Paul Lucowicz
Prof. Dr. Holger Kantz Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis
Prof. Dr. Klaus Troitzsch University of Koblenz Information Systems
Prof. Dr. Marc Hütt Jacobs University Bremen Computational Systems Biology
Prof. Dr. Magda Schiegl Fachhochschule Köln Risk and claims management
Dr. Tobias Preis ETH/Boston University Financial Market Fluctuations
Aldo Martínez Piñánez University of Kassel Social-Ecological Systems, Agent Based Models
Dr. Michael May IAIS Fraunhofer Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mikhailov  Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin Physical Chemistry, Complex Systems
Prof. Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou University of Magdeburg Data mining
Nana Karlstetter, M.A. University of Oldenburg Economic and Legal Sciences
Dr. Natalia Andrienko IAIS Fraunhofer GeoVisualization
Prof. Dr. Jens Niemeyer University of Goettingen Cosmology
Dr. Eckehard Olbrich Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Nonlinear time series analysis, Complex systems theory
Prof. Dr. Peter Baumann Jacobs University Bremen Computer Science, Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems
Dr. Jörg Reichardt University of Wuerzburg Theoretical Physics, Data Analysis in Complex Systems
Dr. Reik Donner PIK Potsdam Climate Impact Research
PD Dr. Reinhard Mahnke University of Rostock Physics of stochastic processes
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rosenow University of Leipzig Theoretical Physics
Dr. Rudi Schäfer University of Duisberg-Essen Econophysics, Statistical Physiccs, Quantum Chaos
Dr. Salvartore Loguercio Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden Biotechnology
Prof. Dr. Stefan Pickl University of Munich Operations Research
Prof. Dr. Peter Stadler University of Leipzig Bioinformatics
Tobias Franke University of Passau Student of Paul Lucowicz
Dr. Torsten Heinrich University of Bremen Economic Policy, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics
Dr. Arne Traulsen Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Theory
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Platt University of Heidelberg Environmental Physics
Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf Media Research Institute, University of Siegen Information Systems
Dr. Uwe Wössner High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Visualization

Why do we need FuturICT?

Today, society and technology are changing at a pace that often outstrips our capacity to understand and manage them. It seems that we know more about the universe than about our society. Therefore it is time to use the power of information to explore social and economic life on Earth and discover options for a sustainable future. As the recent financial crisis demonstrates, the systems that we have built to organise our affairs now possess an unprecedented degree of complexity and interdependence among their technological, social and economic components. This complexity often results in counter-intuitive effects driven by positive feedbacks that lead to domino-like cascades of failures. Neither the precepts of traditional science, nor our collective experience from a simpler past, adequately prepare us for the future. It is simply impossible to understand and manage complex networks using conventional tools. We need to put systems in place that highlight, or prevent, conceivable failures and allow us to quickly recover from those that we cannot predict. We need this insight to help manage our financial markets but also to tackle other risks, such as flu pandemics, social instabilities, or criminal networks. At the same time, policy- makers are currently faced with major decisions of how to plan the general infrastructure of services to cope with the demands of the future, and what is more, to do so in a sustainable manner. The same decisions are also posed to individuals who wish to improve their own lives. Thus now is the time to create a paradigm shift moving from a focus on the system components and their properties towards evaluating their interactions. These interactions are often hard to measure but create collective, emergent dynamics which are characteristic of strongly coupled systems. For more information please visit www.futurict.eu for the website of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal.